But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their dead bodies." What did you say?" I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.